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s- <br /> New greenway pedestrian project <br /> The greenway will connect downtown Hillsborough to the train <br /> station,Collins Ridge,across 1-85 with a pedestrian bridge and to <br /> Cates Creek Park in Waterstone. <br /> mw.a nni.n«000n we.nmo n.romm.omno. <br /> Stephanie Trueblood—Town of Hillsborough <br /> • The slide shows the pedestrian recommendations from the Community connectivity plan and <br /> that plan is being incorporated into our comprehensive sustainability plan it is currently in a <br /> draft form and ready for public review and input this summer.The parks and recs board has <br /> participated in the development of that plan. <br /> • Last year the town board set transportation priorities to feed into the plan and directed staff of <br /> what projects were prioritize so that we could start looking for planning and design and <br /> construction funding through the MPO and federal sources. <br /> • The town board prioritized a greenway connection shown on the map below in light aqua, it <br /> runs north-south from downtown Hillsborough and Riverwalk to our future train station <br /> property and then on through Collins Ridge, which is very large development just behind the <br /> Daniel Boone Antique Mall the way to the Waterstone development and Cate Creek Park there <br /> will be a pedestrian bridge across it five into Beckett's Ridge and Waterstone which are both <br /> residential neighborhoods so this this greenway is a is a really important piece of the towns <br /> overall network. It's roughly a mile long it involves two pedestrian bridges and possibly one <br /> pedestrian tunnel. Parts of it will be looked at in Fiscal Year 23. <br /> • The town board has also prioritized several roadway projects that include pedestrian amenities, <br /> such as the 86 connector,which is a new road connecting old 86 to new past the train station <br /> property on South Churton street. <br /> • The town recently updated their Typical Standards for roadway sections to include a shared use <br /> path on one side, so in the past roadway projects, usually had sidewalks on both sides, but now <br /> our new cross section for the town allows roadway projects to have a traditional sidewalk on <br /> one side and then a shared use path which, which is separate a little further from the road <br /> surface and is generally wider and provides that full multimodal access for bicycles and <br /> pedestrians outside of the vehicle travel wings.All of the priorities are being wrapped into the <br />